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Our top 5 predictions for 2011: The rise of media whoredom, social networking and the haves vs the have me nots but wishful fame and money.

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According to Payscale.com, the Dollar General chain pays its assistant managers $9.22 an hour and store managers $11.51 an hour. Cashiers and sales associates make barely over minimum wage. We’re talking about thousands of new jobs between $20,000 and $30,000 a year.

It’s a sign of the times. Low-wage jobs, including everything from retail sales associates to home health aides, are the bread and butter of our employment boom, while middle income jobs are on the decline. 

W0w- nice work if you want it, and if you’re lucky you’ll be able to pay for another spare rolls of toilet paper on the side. And on the flip side, another report courtesy of the Atlantic has this to say about the super rich hat the U.S. economy had become “very distorted.”

In the wake of the recession, this guest explained, high-income individuals, large banks, and major corporations had experienced a “significant recovery”; the rest of the economy, by contrast—including small businesses and “a very significant amount of the labor force”—was stuck and still struggling. What we were seeing, he argued, was not a single economy at all, but rather “fundamentally two separate types of economy,” increasingly distinct and divergent.

Which is to say while you tweet your brain out and surf the web sphere, you better believe those individuals positioned to bring branding and attention to themselves will continue to bring added wealth to themselves, all the while using the media and social networking to exact a cunning representation of their interests and have you beleiving that you are also joining in the fun. The result more dissatisfied groups who become right wing fanatics (cause the left wing radicals are all living in Europe eating subsidized puff pastry and sipping on early morning cafe lattes.

The upshot, you need to be nimble children and fight to the bone to preserve your hegemony or at least stay our of a dump or if you are on the yummy side be the self ingratiating media whore that will occasionally donate and appear in made to life social network dramas. Living in America this year will be to be sure perilous, nauseating and quite thrilling- just the way you like it…

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